Now that's what I call a lot of happy endings every single day!

This "happy ending" thing seems to be catching on around here, so I thought I'd add one more example.

Have you ever heard of the Herman Cain Awards? Cain was the prominent Trump supporter who went to a rally in 2020, bragged about not wearing a mask, and stopped breathing forever a few days later due to Covid.

Anyway, over on Reddit's HCA site, some fine people who have crapped all over real science and real medicine on Facebook are having much of it exposed to the world. And by some funny coincidence, these same folks tend to make posts crapping on Democrats, Mexicans, gays, Muslims, feminists, and so on. And here's another coincidence - all these folks were hit by Covid.

Spoiler alert: If they've been "nominated" for an HCA it means that they have been hospitalized with a serious case. If they have been "awarded" an HCA, it means that they are now residing with the invisible guy in the sky or some such nonsense.

Am I happy when the twit who went unvaccinated bites the big one? Of course not. But when someone actively tries to discourage others from taking proper precautions in a pandemic dies, I'm not so sad. You know, justice.

Well, frankly, I feel that your right to do as you please stops precisely at the point where you interfere with the rights of others to do as they please, and endangering the health of others is an excellent example of that. So I must say, I'm downright happy when some jerkass who's been vocal about encouraging other people to resist vaccinations and mask mandates bites the dust. He (notice, by the way, that it's always a "he"?) not only doesn't contribute to society--he subtracts from it.

I've found it hard to track down exactly why the RepubliQ party is so anti-science, and the only thing I can come up with is that they're in the thrall of fossil fuel companies, which don't want to bear the cost burdens of climate change mitigation, so they have to set up an anti-science platform to justify it. Then, the promulgation of conspiracy theories decreases confidence in government as well as science--which increases the power of those theory-peddlers who have the ability to attract the attention of the Great Numbnuts Brigade, 75 million strong.

I suspect cowardice.   Fear of the needle. 

Of course none will admit that.  Has one person gone on TV or Facebook or other media and said "I am just damned afraid of needles and that's why I won't get the vaccine."

No.   

As the Mayor (Harry Morgan) in Support Your Local Sheriff described to James Garner the previous cowardly town sheriff, "A good organizer.  Yellow through and through, but a good organizer."

(Excellent movie, BTW.)

As always, JMHO.

Candy

I dunno. There's virtually no one out there who hasn't been needled at some point in their life--usually multiple times. Measles, mumps, TB jabs. And in every instance, it amounted to a brief moment of mild pain. I can't believe that any rational adult would be even remotely fearful of that (of course, not getting the vaccine even if it caused hours of existential agony would still be irrational, but that's a different issue).

The hold that the various conspiracy theorists and RepubliQ talking heads have on their enraptured audiences cannot be overstated. A recent report found that Fox News promoted anti-vaccination at least once every broadcast day. Tucker Carlson's primary rant every evening has been about vaccines and why no one should get them more than half the time in the last year. And he has millions of loyal viewers.

I know, both you and I would have thought, "Why on earth would anyone listen to some cable news opinion show host rather than their doctor, especially regarding life or death decisions?" But apparently, that's exactly what the 75 million do. It's baffling, it's a sea change, and it affects the very functioning of this country. We can no longer assume that the people around us will make sane decisions, even those concerning their own safety or well-being.

Show PROOF that 75 million people do what you have said they do.

I don't respond to screamed demands from RepubliQ conservitards. Even if they're ALL IN CAPITAL LETTERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So what's the matter with Idaho?  Seems the whole state is anti-vax, per the nightly news tonight.  Hospitals full of nothing but Covid patients, all unvaccinated.  Nurses fleeing the place, exhausted, angry that the citizens won't take the vaccine.  Did I hear that right?

Candy

I don't disagree with you guys about the vaccines, nor getting them.  But it would help the general public if the public health officials weren't dead wrong most of the time.  Might help their credibility a little bit.  Also would help if the lead public health official hadn't been funding Covid development from the start.  

One of the reasons that Idaho has been so cavalier about all this is that they can ship all their covid patients to nearby Washington, which is obligated to take them. Spokane hospitals are full to the brim with Idaho covid patients, and vital surgeries, such as brain tumor removal in one poor guy's instance, are being postponed due to a lack of ICU bed capacity.

Idaho has had the luxury of being full-blown conservitard (for decades), with those commie pinko snowflake liberals next door to bail them out when needed. Idaho is and always has been the hideout state for the nutball crowd, the "militias," the bozos behind barbed wire out in the woods, etc. They all rail about BIG GUMMINT, but are net recipients of government payments. And gun love is the primary religion.

It's a beautiful state with a lot of ugly people, run by evil clowns who have made political hay by being anti-vax and anti-mask. They've been strangely silent recently, though.

They aren't "dead wrong most of the time."